First of all, I went see this movie only because I heard it was going to be the first one to have the trailer for the new Star Wars movie. And it did and that was by far the best part of the experience.
This is the kind of movie that really bothers me. Because when scripts or ideas are pitched to studio executives, they must sit around in a room and decide whether or not they are going to spend 40 million dollars on some film that they hope will give them a significnat return. With Wing Commander, I would like to know how anyone could actually read the script and say to themselves " Yea!!!! We are going to make a huge profit off this one. " How exactly do executives do it? How do they get paid the ridiculous amounts of money that they do and then give the green light to make unbelievably bad movies like this? I know sometimes it is a gamble because you never know what will succeed and what won't ( remember the unbelievable success of Lethal Weapon? No one saw that coming ) but at least when you gamble, there should be some educated reasoning behind it. And any educated person would tell you that this film was destined to fail right from the beginning. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Mathew Lilliard are not that big enough yet to carry a film by themselves, especially if they are working with the deck stacked against them. And plus, another film sort of like this one was scheduled to get released in mere months after this came out, and that film is called The Phantom Menace. And I think everyone could wait a few more months to get their fix than to catch some simple imitation called Wing Commander.
I won't even get into the story because it is so simple that I'm sure you already know. Some bad guys want to take over the world and some good guys have to stop them.
The story is uninteresting, the acting is okay and the direction is a muddled confusing mess. And to top it off they wasted Lilliard in this film. He deserves better than this. He has a presence on film and he makes almost every scene he's in better. Even in this film he was good, but he can't help something that is this bad.
Don't waste your money or your inteligence on this piece of garbage. It is terrible. Bad Bad Bad. Awful.... You get the point!
This is the kind of movie that really bothers me. Because when scripts or ideas are pitched to studio executives, they must sit around in a room and decide whether or not they are going to spend 40 million dollars on some film that they hope will give them a significnat return. With Wing Commander, I would like to know how anyone could actually read the script and say to themselves " Yea!!!! We are going to make a huge profit off this one. " How exactly do executives do it? How do they get paid the ridiculous amounts of money that they do and then give the green light to make unbelievably bad movies like this? I know sometimes it is a gamble because you never know what will succeed and what won't ( remember the unbelievable success of Lethal Weapon? No one saw that coming ) but at least when you gamble, there should be some educated reasoning behind it. And any educated person would tell you that this film was destined to fail right from the beginning. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Mathew Lilliard are not that big enough yet to carry a film by themselves, especially if they are working with the deck stacked against them. And plus, another film sort of like this one was scheduled to get released in mere months after this came out, and that film is called The Phantom Menace. And I think everyone could wait a few more months to get their fix than to catch some simple imitation called Wing Commander.
I won't even get into the story because it is so simple that I'm sure you already know. Some bad guys want to take over the world and some good guys have to stop them.
The story is uninteresting, the acting is okay and the direction is a muddled confusing mess. And to top it off they wasted Lilliard in this film. He deserves better than this. He has a presence on film and he makes almost every scene he's in better. Even in this film he was good, but he can't help something that is this bad.
Don't waste your money or your inteligence on this piece of garbage. It is terrible. Bad Bad Bad. Awful.... You get the point!